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Posterior two-thirds of ductus bursae heavily sclerotized, flattened, bent laterally at medial third, as broad as ostium, only slightly dilated at proximal end. Anterior third membranous with verrucose ribs and wrinkles. Appendix bursae finely bilobate, semiglobular, membranous with sclerotized ribs and wrinkles. Corpus bursae relatively long, elliptical, with four rather short, more or less equal signum-stripes. Bionomics and distribution — The species is known to inhabit, according to our knowledge, the medium-high and high altitudes of the Zagros Mts (Iran: Farsistan, Lorestan; a view from the type locality of the species is given in the Fig. 6). The imagines are on the wing in the early spring aspect (first half of April), all specimens were collected at light. The early stages are unknown. Etymology — The new species is dedicated to Mr. György ("Gyuri") Fábián, the first collector of the new species. The specific epithet is a pseudacronym (from "Gyuri" and "Iran"). Acknowledgements — The authors would like to express their gratitude to the members of the Hungarian Embassy in Teheran, Iran: Mr. Károly Vadas, the consul, Dr. Gyula Pethő, the former counsellor of embassy, Mr. Attila Szabó, the former secretary of embassy and Mr. Zsolt Zilaji, the attache of the Hungarian Embassy and his wife, for their kind help in the organisation of the field expeditions in the country. Our sincere thanks to the leadership of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest and Mr. Behzad Mouzambour, the Consul of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Hungary for their kind support of our research. We are indebted to Mr. György Fábián, Mr. Gábor Ronkay (Budapest) and Dr. Péter Gyulai (Miskolc) for the opportunity to study their vast Noctuidae material from Iran, and to Mr. Tamás Hácz (Hegyhátszentjakab, Hungary) and Mr. Gábor Kőszegi (Budapest) for their kind assistance in the field work. REFERENCES Benedek, B. & Ronkay, L. (2001): On the taxonomy of the genus Agrochola Hübner, 1821 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Part III. Two new species from Asia. — Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici [in press] Fibiger, M., Hacker, H. & Moberg, A. (1996): Notes on the Orthosia rorida (Frivaldsky, 1835) species-group, with description of a new species from Crete: Orthosia sellingi sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Hadeninae). — Nota lepidopterologica 18(3—4): 203-212. Hacker, H., Huber, K. & Kuhna, P. (1988): Achter Beitrag zur systematischen Erfassung der Noctuidae der Türkei. Beschreibung von sechs neuen Taxa und Notizen über bemerkenswerte Funde aus neueren Aufsammlungen (Lepidoptera). —Atalanta 18: 339-369. Hacker, H. & Ronkay, L. (1990): Systematik und Faunistik der Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) des himalayanischen Raumes. 5. Liste der Cucullia Schrank, 1802, Agrochola Hübner, [1821] und Autophila Hübner, [1823] - Arten mit Beschreibung neuer Taxa. — Esperiana 1: 377-392. Hacker, H. & Talhouk, A. S. (1998): Contribution to the Noctuidae fauna of Lebanon with the first proof of ten species and taxonomic comments (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). — Esperiana 6: 376-380. (Received: 20th March, 200 J)
